{"id":281,"date":"2015-07-21T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=281"},"modified":"2015-07-27T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:24:10","slug":"25-favourite-quotes-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"25 favourite quotes on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">There&#8217;s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they&#8217;d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. &#8212; Anonymous<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn&#8217;t true. &#8212; Ian Hart<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. &#8212; Mitchell Kapor<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. &#8212; Bill Gates<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn&#8217;t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. &#8212; Eric Schmidt<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">It shouldn&#8217;t be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. &#8212; Denise Caruso<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies. &#8212; John Lester.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. &#8212; Al-Waleed bin Talal<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame. &#8212; M.G. Sriram<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation. &#8212; Paul Carvel<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won&#8217;t bother you for weeks. Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. &#8212; Andrew Brown<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">[The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland? &#8212; Mitchell Kapor and Jerry Berman.<br \/>\nThe net&#8217;s a cross between an elephant and a white elephant sale: it never forgets, and it&#8217;s always crap. \u2013 Nemo<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The Internet is the most powerful magnifier of slack ever invented. \u2013 author unknown<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. &#8212; Marilyn Manson<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click. &#8212; author unknown<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The Internet is the Viagra of big business. &#8211;Jack Welch<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans. &#8212; Will Hobbs<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos. Two hours later your fingers are yellow and you&#8217;re no longer hungry, but you haven&#8217;t been nourished.&#8221; &#8212; Cliff Stoll<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The Internet is the world&#8217;s largest library. It&#8217;s just that all the books are on the floor. &#8212; John Allen Paulos<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea &#8212; massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. &#8212; Gene Spafford<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar. &#8212; George Lundberg<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Hooked on Internet? Help is a just a click away. &#8212; author unknown<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. &#8212; Al Gore<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. &#8212; Dan Quayle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(ed. &#8211; This list of great quotes was compiled years ago and first appeared in the By George Journal is 2009.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they&#8217;d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. &#8212; Anonymous Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn&#8217;t true. &#8212; Ian Hart Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}